The Terra Blade, 104% melee speed, and why Violent is sometimes completely useless

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am i early (posted 1 minute after video upload)

these days i dont even use the terra blade, i just use something easier to get on golem

I see terrasteel video, i click

with haste

If you don't mind being a glass cannon, you can actually just go for 6 use time as well, although that does mean sacrificing 4 acc slots just for gloves and one for the celestial shell, 2 accessories with violent and needing to have tipsy and at least plenty satisfied on, but other than that, you can still get a couple different reforges on the rest of your gear, and end up having a way better result in the end. (Keep in mind, what i said here applies only in *vanilla*, the build used in the video is tml, where melee speed is slightly nerfed, giving you slightly worse results.)

i always use warding no mather what class i'm playing

I missed these videos

Vampire Knives. I read on the wiki years ago that extremely high melee speed can ruin this weapon because they’ll only fire on half of the attacks. Is this still true? What’s the sweet spot?

EDIT: Here’s the line on the wiki page I’m referring to: “Some higher melee speed bonuses will cripple the Vampire Knives, as this may cause the player to only throw the knives every other swing. However, the high melee speed will make them fly faster and farther.”

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In older versions, terra blade actually fired its projectile at a much faster rate when you spam clicked instead of held down the button!

I’m sorry did you say OPTIMAL?

Ohhhh, this sounds like something someone I knew told me once

The Terra Blade pre-rework fires faster until a certain Melee speed, where it actually becomes slower

(This was 2020's mobile, we met just as I was about to leave Highschool)

I don't think more than perhaps, a few dozen people know this, maybe less, even less now that most people play 1.4.4/5

So if you see this, or already knew this, congrats for perhaps one of the most obscure pieces of Terraria Knowledge ever

(Yes he had a list of which weapons were affected, no I don't remember all of them, nor the Melee speed required, but I believe it was similar, around 100%)

Fun fact: Clothier is a drug addict since he wants to eat hallucinogenic Truffle

Deosn't melee speed affect the Meowmere?

people try to make terra blade extremely fast
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This is likely the cause of misconceptions regarding whether or not melee speed boosts the attack rate of projectiles from projectile swords that aren’t the terra blade

Moral of the story, violence is never the answer.

Thank god someone has finally brought this up. I've being telling people for months that max melee speed Terrablade is overrated. You're literally better using max damage or max crit chance.

This makes me curious what the optimal setup for other melee speed buff-reliant melee weapons would be.

math make my head hort.

I honestly thought the Melee Speed modifiers were always pointless.